Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats may be essential to forming a government

. But the next government will probably need three parties to make up the numbers. That could mean a choice between a right-leaning “Jamaica” coalition, with Armin Laschet as chancellor, or anand the Greens as junior partners.

In 2017 Mr Lindner aborted Angela Merkel’s attempts to form a Jamaica coalition, declaring it better not to govern at all than to govern badly. “TheThis year Mr Lindner will hope to give Jamaica another try. He gets on well with Mr Laschet, with whom he built a

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